THE CHINA MAILLS MONDAY DECEMBER
Tunisian Nationalists Form Striking Force
In Desert
Sequel To Probe By
Grand Jury
Washington, Dec. 28. A
ການ House Committee arranged public hearings next interfere
week ont reports that the Justice with a Federal Grund Jury in vestigation of United Nations
Department tried to
employees.
Three days of testimony will be taken, starting Monday, by a Judiciary Sub-Committee head cd by Representative Frank Chelt (Democrat-Kentucky)..
The group has already ques tioned some members of the Grand Jury behind closed doors The Jury, sitting in New York City, was looking Into alleged members of the United States staff at the U.N.
Paris, Dec. 28.
Tunisian Nationalists have formed a desert striking force, equipped with British, German and American arms, clothed in Italian and American uniforms and trained and supplied from secret bases in the Libyan Desert,
The equipment had been looted from the Allied and Axis World War II supply depots when the fighting swept backwards and forwards across North Africa and kept hidden by the Arabs ever since.
The main force is believed to be known now as the "Ferhat Hached Legion" after the Tunisian Nas tionalist Trados Union leader who was machine-gunned. to death in his car outside Tunis recently,
rood
old
.Communist affiliations of some callons,
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Nationalists And units of the Legion are Apparently the
difficulty in sweeping Into Southern Tunisio, are having little across, tho
Marteth Line recruiting their rolding forces fortifications shooting up For the Libyan-Tunisian
always been French police and army posts, frontier has
frontier for tantored telugropi natural And
robbing and Arab raiders, Amb criminals von the run and for gun-smugglers, footing.
These units going into The dead bodies of 14 of the
are belleved
to "Tiave Nationalist Legionaires which been under training in. secret were recovered after a skirmish bases outside Tripoll for the past six months.
disbanded on action When it was December 2, the Grand Jury re commended that a new Grand Jury be sworn in to continue the investigation. Referta then
arose that Justice Department
300
They are part of a force of Into well- men divided
fast-striking сот
oficials had sought to suppress | equipped, Its findings.
Grand Jurors are under oath to keep secret everything that goes on
mando units.
Their
RAISING MONEY
headquarters
and
during their sessions training centro is thought to
but Committee counsel Robert be a vast estate just south of A. Collier said they can possibly Tripoli be required to ignore their daths while
of under rubpoena
Congressional Committee.
owned "All
by Tunisian who is tri
Nationalist Zlipti,
a wanted by the French
Tunisia in connection with tid
Mency to finance their move
"We are just as much interest-first outbreak of anti-French ed us the
are in pre violence earlier this year. courts serving secrecy of Grand Jurere," Mr Collier told a reporter. "But we believe these jurors can tell us a lot without violating their oaths,"
He said the Committee is more interested in what the jurors can relations with tell about their
than with the Justice offelals
ment is being raised by means of "protection funds raised directly amongst Tunisian No
Extorted lonialista dr wealthy Tunisians.
EMEDITERRANEAN
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from
MULES 100
testimony they look.--Associated TAKEN ILL
Prees.
Buying Their
Own Oil
Vienna, Dec, 28. The Soviet Oil Administra- sell the tion in Austria will
in 1953 Austrian Government more than a million tons of ol Informa- producis, the Soviet tion Service announced.
office said this The Soviet should completely All Austria's needs for oll products,
according
to the Government's claims.
Austrian oil experts sald to day that this quantity tween one-half and
be-
SUSA
.
SIRIPOLITANIK
LIBYA
showed them to be well- equipped. They hold fought under obviously well-traded officers.
The French Foreign Office is
IN PLANE making a diplomatic protest to
Libyan authorities, asking their police force to stop the exited Nationalista military build-up.
London, Dec. 26. A doctor and an ambulance
Already General Garbay, stood by at Northolt airport for French commander in Tunisia. day after the pilot of a British
ordered has
fighter and spotter European Airways Viking air-
30 planes and the whole of his S.O.S. liner radioed an minutes after leaving for Nice southern desert foreca Into the Mareth Line area for full-scale and Malia.
action against the Nationalist Carmelo Gaust, 65-year-old Legion. And "bloody battles" London Express Maltese walter of Cardiff, as are forecast. taken il a few minutes after Service. the airliner left Northolt,
He was flying home for his since he visit to Malta first came to Britrin 35 years ago.
Other passengers'in the third Viking made a bed for Signor of the total extracted yearly by Gausi in the airliner's gang- the Soviet authorities from the way. oil Helds in Austria, which they confiscated as former German assets. The remainder ported to the East.-Reuter.
He was taken to hospital im- touched is ex-mediately the plane
down-Reuter.
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ACROSS
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8 Bonds (4),
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11
Trick (4)
12 Low (4).
14 Ornament
19 Upright (6).
22
26 Tablo support
20. Imitater (4).
27 Objects (4).
28. Narratives (7)
20 Victim (4);
30
Chasto (9).
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Behind (6).
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Frill (5)
12
Chesilse (4).
Certain (4) Retain
10 Small children (4).
18 Elumbers (0)
20. Grated (0)
21. Breakfast food (8).
24; Fight (6).
29 Proportion (B).
25 Follow (B).
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Amalgamate
Gets
Lancashire
Warning From U.S. Experts
London, Dec. 29.
American experts warned the British cotton industry, today that it must modërùlse, itself to meet world conditions.
Ten American cotton men, who came here in 1951 to study the British industry, said in a report published today that more than twice the number of operative hours were required in a British spinning mill to produce a given amount of yarn compared with its American counterpart.
UNIQUE MASS IN
VATICAN
The American experts were returning a visit paid by British | cotton men to thẻ United States in 1949 under the auspices of the Anglo-American 'Council of Proi ductivity
*Their report blames warfen of} | labour eqused by obsolete, spin-
ning method
Some Lancashire mills stii) | used skilled labour to move and position materials, they saidi This work in the United States was left to unskilled labour.
Rome, Dec. 29, Indian Catholic students at
But criticism of methods is ecclesiastical colleges in Reno havo caganised a series of cele chiefly based on the lack of brations today and on Tuesday automatic looms in Lancashire, to coincide with those being The Lancashire loomy had re- held at Ernakulam in southern mained fundamentally unchanged India to marks the 19th cens since the early days of power tenary of the arrival in india loc weaving. of the Apostle Thomas.
tended to honour
produce fabric
ELECTION TEST
IN THE SPRING
Rome, Dec. 28. Towering over all coming events for Italy in 1953 are the general elections to be held in the Spring.
Everything else becomes secondary to the test of popular sentiment that will determine the fate of the five-year-old Government of Premier Alcide de Gaspari who led Italy into the Atlantic Fact...
The consensus among political observers is that the centro bloc led by his Christian Democrats will win. · But few are optimis tle enough to insist that the party by itself can repeat its performance of 1948 when It single-handedly won a majority in the Chamber of Deputies,
In the crucial 1948 elections the Christian · Pardocrats alone won 48 per cent of the popular vote.. But the party managed
Reds In Labour Unions
to get only 35 per cent in the Committee Shocked
three rounds of local cloctions that were held in Italy in 195X ||
and 1992 the bald reason why
That
Mystery Of The rightwing Socialists to run as
Missing Herring In The Channel
་་་་་་་
Brighton, Dec. 27. Many fishermen have de- plded to look for other jobs next year.
Herring Babing in the English Channel was again a faliate-this rear. Experis
mystlied' by the dia are Appearance of herrings in. where they large areas used to he
by the The tens of th last boom year was 1836
Mr. H. M. Boniface, the Chief Fibery Ofser for Bussex, Maya that the her- rings now keep to the other side of the Channel so that French, Belgian and ↑ Ger
fishermen get bir
hatils.
Some fishermen gay thai. there has been's change in the currents at the mouth of the Chamel, while others blare detergents' nnd wove are Tek this the now! from coastal town,Reuter,
By Evidence
Washington, Dec. 28. the party has ailled itself with
The House Committee on tho Liberals, Republicans and
Un American Activities bloe in the coming elections.
yesterday it was sald And it is also the hard motive shocked by the evidence of the new electoral reform Communist infiltration into which tho
party or
benu
bloc of parties, which is more labour unions in defence to the point in the present-planis.
And labelled as a national
winning 50.01 per cent of the popular vote will be awarded 380 (or 04 per cent) of the 890 disgrace the failure of certain seats in the new Parliament,
unionists to rid themselves Alone the Chrisilan De- of Communists.
Committee, in its you-
trade
could not
not win mocrats probably a majority, a development that cluding year-end report fald
plunge Italy into a special emphasis on
Red In-
would series of coalition governments altration of labour unions, but and periodic erises." But allied added that for the most with the other three democratic union members
in the United parties 'the centre bloc is given States are completely loyal and an excellent chance of captur-
patriotle.
"Ing the "majority premium" of
800 scats.
However, the soport saht, "in numerous instances, the
the
BITTER DEBATE
average union member has been The electoral reform probably unaware that through
his own will not clear both Houses of apathy for union affairs, Parliament until early in the union or local to which he be new year. It has provoked one tongs is under the domination of of the most bitter debates in Communism.
the Communists Among lis recommendations, and their allies refer to it only the Committee urged repeal of as "La Truffa Elettorale" (the the provision of the Taft-Hartley electoral swindle).
which Law
requires Economically, 1952 has not leaders to ale non-Communist been the best possible of years affidavits. The report said that
years, and
union
provision, after working as
SOCIALIST world increase in commodity the same time as tho
MISSION
TO AFRICA
London, Doc. 28. Four Labour Party pepino
Scaretary, Mr James The American team believed sentatives, led by the former
Colonial
How to West Africa The celebrations are also in-that automatic looms properly Griffiths,
political and study the fourth adjusted could
today to centenary of the death of St equal to fabric produced on economic conditions, Francis
With Mr Griffiths were two Kayler, one of the non-automatie booms, greatest missionaries sinco St.
"other" Members" of Parliament,
Mr Paul, whose body. La preserved
Wilfred
Vice- Burke, in of the
...and Chairman In the Cathedral of Goa,
Party, Farmer, the
ТОО АРАТНЕТІС
for Italy. With growing imports a
the and slacking exports, her foreign trade gap has increases by pinost its authors intended, is now! 50 per cent. The reasons were helping Reds to gain absolute many, but chief among them the control of unions,
Cam- report was released, prices plur the serious slump
Homer textiles,
Ferguson a principal export.
(Republican-Michigan) issued ¦à But despite the economic statement urging the Brined dificulties the Italian Govern forces to "purge their ranke" of ment has pushed ahead on. Its known and suspected Com-
Italian
mitt
Build-up for NATO defence. The munist Ferrulon, who wil
army expanded steadily during
the year to the point where it presumably head the Senate now includes about 10 divisions. Internal Security Sub-Committee two armoured and three lying if it is continued in the next
With the "ald
of Congress, said some of the group American supplies and new heme are of the opinion and have semne, brigades. production abspiste equipat knowledge that there are many
rapidly being replaced. Commumisty cmong the commis Defense Minliter Baddolto sioned grades in active service Pacelardi has set his sights on and in the reserves. 16 divisions by the end of 1953. DEFENCE SPENDING
is
"Saying that 12) subversiva elements in the United States Haly his earmarked US1880, can be discovered uas rostrolled, 228,000 or almost one hird of there need be no fear, afsi They considered the hills Mrs Eirene White, as well as her US$3,210,100,000 budget for bements of many British
The celebrations tvill initiated in Rome today by a
too apathetic to establish con- Dir calth Officer e
for
shooting war in America, bonous
4 Ferguson declared it is
| the 1052-53 year for donor that -- Nirther Wil
large chunk an
mionlly as poor as
The Communists
nedeszáry,
the
Com
by Massignor Leditions necessary for labour to Klarkels, former Apostolle I work at high productivity.
Grimths will return Paris, Dec. 28.
India fernunzio to
the The Now China News Agency
1089 Ha Bungested more study Tuçaday -On
In the vast Labour, too, had not respond-about three weeks reported tonight from Peking that the boards of several lead Basilica of St Fetor # solemned to exhortation to become opening of Parliament, but his sight of that fact during the into the United Nations, the
three colleagues plan to stay coming electoral campaign: The Armed Forces, labour union
Abrica Material was often carried by in:
for about another electoral battle will be
the school radio and t ing newspapers in Ching had Mass will be sung according to production minded.
week.
The loudert noise will vision, youth organisa announced
round British mills, "some changes in the. Sy canalaber, rite.
big belleved that this will be the hand
Tho Labour Party leader, Me
te from the left, 1 but for the of which, heania, preparation for the
first time that a Mass has been whereas in Amerien' it was al-
Clement Altise, leaves later centre partics biggest danger munists trica to uso. work of national construction."
celebrated in the Vatican ways truched.
Men wore The report said that in the Basilica in the ancient rite of
employed for jobs this week to attend an Asian will be
right, inho own ends.Associated hal Socialist conterence in presence
growing New Year, the Shanghal "TA the Maliber Catholics-leuter. that women could do and man- rogiphal
power was wasted by not using Rangoon in a representative of Monarchist Party and the ab Kung Pao" and the "Progressive
automatic winding and looms. the Dally" of Tichtsin will be in
Fascia Fallan Social Movement The way out was clear:
India and These will pull votes not from corporated.
WAY.
to the
but from the centre
Toading the
Ight, Rose, the Party's
·but
The new paper will bear the Underwater Oil difoult, Tite Industry's own pkt
name of "Ta King Pao."
al news coverage, the
continuing normal
report said, the new paper would
Concession
on
Burmese capital.
7onal;
study groups had made, recount Secretary,
mendations and a few bold managements and trade union
given o Jend.
in Shaloration Company" by got to the survival of tho, lg-|
·BALKAN FRONT
the
Eisenhower Committee
We Present agreement be- | also attend the conference and twoen thebl four" democrati
New York: Deo: 28 Landon, Dec. 28. But complacency, Teluctance will visit Malay, Indonesia, parties leave the way open to develop internal information on
An Immediate start plarmed to depart from things of the Burma, * India”** and possibly admission of other parties by The President eldot Me financial and economic questions
mutual cotisant Some clements Dwight Eisenhower, today bensin giving spécial attention to rela- for exploring an underwater oil past and lack of incentive were Pakistan on his way back to
4"-1-man dgricultural advisory to pm- Britain-Reuter.
Democrats of ele ・tho' tons
between
and concession in the Persian Gulf the greatest barriers "public
would welcome broadening the committed to help draw up the private enterprises and between recently granted the Shell Over-ductivity and the greatest dian-
seaa
alliance to include the Menar new Administration's farm pro- Jabour and capital."-France
the
of Qatar,
dustry which must expert er
ghly unlikely gramme. dhiste but Presse.
The group
will Work which that the Republican or Liberals aren extends into the die Beuter, Persian Gulf outsidó territorial
with Mr Ezra Taft Benson, would go
with it. Belgrado, Dec. 28.
"long Indications now are that Secretary-designate" of Agricul- waters.
Turkish General. Liriall Hakk! Best I oil is found in commercial Japanese In Moscow pron word toons that the the thig fair will remain the ture, is bekeved to be the quantities the ralts will be
Yugoulay, Greck and Turkish big four until election day, that runner of a bipartinn Federal divided on a 50-50 basis between
London Dec. 28. armies were earable together or they will most probably win the agricultural commission. the
The Japanese... delegation to resleting any "aggression. Al elections but that it will be no Company and the Qatar. Qatar, an independent Sheik the Vienna Peace Congress le General Fantboylu bis the runaway viciory Unifod 7 Prem, dorn, is a peninsda of about now visiting Moscow--the Drst leader of a Turkiendeleration 20,000 square kilometres with Epanese delegation to visit the watch has been in Yugoslavia on population of 20,000, mostly Soviet capital" the invitation a good win mision. The delega atmi-Heitled tribesmen and of the Soviet people"""""Morcobri tion:left bere jiday by train 10% Bedouins-Reuter,
Radio reported tonight-Reyter. Istanbul, Reuler
Expelled Catholic
Trieste, Dec. 28. Hundreds of Yugoslav, re fugees today greeted Monsignor $livio Oddi,” expelitd "Empal Charge d'Affaires in Belgrade,
on his passage, through yiesta Philippines Rounds Up Suspected Reds
to Rome
The Papal
diplomat Was handed note on December: 17
Holy See
"The
The Wrong Yoshida
fore
Mr Eisenhower pledged during
campaign the election would create such a commission. The Canteman of the com- miitce is Dr. W. 1. Myers, pean of the Agricultural College Comell UniversityReuter
Retort
The
New York, Dec, 28. To namo ct Shigeru Yostulda on à commercia Syntiine's
out list caused anY passenger
•Washington, Dec. 28, Hovamen
*affport ot La
The Socretary of Commerce, night in from Charits Bawyer, wald today that piano was funds for the United States bonomy can Pecide const
Book Bound wack, active in 1935.
Mantia, Doc, 20. President Elpidio Quirino of ing them with money, arms and burst of excitement amon Philippine oxmouancing Yugoslavia's rupture,
Army. hts the Philippines has ordened the supplies, V. P of diplomalle rufations with the | today detalțiing ab13 auspected | Army, to apced their investira- | The Defence Minister sald
*Commutile Chinese
aftentations and to begin prosecutions|mord arrests were expected. rotinged to In natinervide if they find evidence warrant
member from Italian reports from Belgrade on stages of Thileged ing much action: Baid that on leaving the Xuge romlog. elpy-capital at night, Mon signor Oddie, declares tut Wellence is the best comment" on
HACONF. In that centralasien Akele the detened Ubam subsides
sammug them were Mentided: by “the
the Yugoslav actionembers of the pess
During a 20-minute half
Trieste stalim Monsion chatted with some of the day refugees who had to meet him, as well'ng withi
Cebu
Po 19 y. Inteligence meet Philippinen, 15) and an AMNESOUD? MA
proper planning.
be the Fring Minister of that the masked frosts followed lawyers are secking the prov-hpan herself. But, on Record af at present, provided business
tomaticę zrumililende man de) with sional ** more than a yeary clown watch Telcuni of tour: Chinese) thalahti) "L
reon and initiative. that mich an important of Chinese Communista oven millionaires among those held... to have surgisel! "fund? - The Hukbalahap,
flod It was a retort to those eco formed in
avouidi vilift ; the polens the proceeds of which 1942 or a loyalist quartila force
oven a hint of nomlats and political crition, to fight the Jurnal armed
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